William (Bill) E. Allcock has more than 12 years of industry experience in software engineering. He joined the Distributed Systems Laboratory at Argonne in 2000 where he developed technology required for computational grids and served as a senior member.

Dr. Kalyan Kumaran possesses a strong record of accomplishments in both R&D and management. He has worked extensively in optimizing and tuning numerical algorithms on parallel platforms. He performed extensive hardware and proﬁling analysis of the SPEC benchmark CPU2000.

Pete Beckman is a recognized global expert in high-end computing systems. During the past 25 years, he has designed and built software and architectures for large-scale parallel and distributed computing systems.